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Created - Jan 5, 2011; Updated - Mar 22, 2012
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Comparison chart of Acronis Backup & Recovery Online Backup and Acronis Online Home Backup

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Description

Acronis Backup & Recovery Online is designed and optimized specially for corporate users whereas Acronis Online Home Backup is designed and optimized for Home users, so some features are different.

Acronis Backup & Recovery Online Acronis Online Home Backup
Licensing 1 subscription per machine 5 machines per subscription
Storage size 250 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB - depending on the subscription type 250 GB
Subscription Yearly Monthly or yearly
Integration with local backup solution Acronis Backup & Recovery
  • Acronis True Image Home 2011
  • Acronis True Image Home 2010
  • Acronis Backup and Security 2010

Workstation operating system support

 YES YES
  • Windows 2000 Professional SP4+
  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (32x/64x)
  • Windows Vista (32x/64x) -all editions except Home Basic and Home Premium
  • Windows 7 (32x/64x) - all editions except Starter and Home
  • Windows XP SP2+ (32x/64x)
  • Windows Vista SP2 (32x/64x) - all editions
  • Windows 7 (32x/64x) - all editions
Server operating system support YES NO
  • Windows 2000 - all editions except Datacenter edition
  • Windows 2003/2003 R2 (32x/64x), including SBS edition
  • Windows 2008 (32x/64x), including SBS edition
  • Windows 2008 R2 (32x/64x), including SBS edition
  • Windows MultiPoint Server 2010
Dynamic disks support YES YES *
File/folder backup YES YES
Disk/partition backup YES NO
Backup of network shares and mapped drives YES NO
Bare-metal restore **

YES

 NO
Initial Seeding: create the initial full backup locally and send it to Acronis for upload YES *** NO
Large Scale Recovery: backups are loaded to a hard disk and shipped to the Customer YES *** NO
Centralized management YES NO
VSS support for database backups YES NO
Encryption (AES-256) YES YES
Scheduling YES YES
Web-based access to the backed up data NO YES

Legend:

  • NO (grey) - Feature not available
  • YES (light green) - Feature available with limitations. Click the asterisk for limitations
  • YES (dark green) - Feature available

* Only files/folders from dynamic disks can be backed up.

** Bare-metal restore is only available for disk/partition backups. Acronis Universal Restore for restoring to dissimilar hardware is included in Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.

(!) Files and folders can be restored on a different machine with a supported operating system,

*** Requires a separately purchased license. See Acronis Backup & Recovery Online: Initial Seeding and Acronis Backup & Recovery: Large Scale Recovery.

More information

See also Acronis Online Backup Subscription.

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